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  1. comanche
    Yeh the fieldsports scene is really going downhill with too many sad tarts who use the internet forums to make ridiculous claims to attract attention to themselves. They make statements that impress naive young men but any knowledge they do possess has been gleaned from magazines or other internet bull-shitters rather than through first-hand experience . Bloody carp anglers !
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    Hm, you could be right . Still when the countryside is finally concreted over and we are all supposed to be surviving on a PETA regulated supply of freeze-dried plankton I know that my angelic -looking Grandchildren will not be starved of protein thanks to their nonchelent acceptance of what even today are considered the less fashionable cuts of meat and the Mail-Order bride connection .
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    I'm a sad child at heart so when a visit to my local Poundland revealled that they already have a good stock of seasonal Halloween goods I could'nt help but invest in one or two items . Not that I agree with 'trick or treatin '-AKA demanding sweets with menaces . I could however see some darkly humerous milage in my grisly purchases . Fast forward to this morning. My grandchildren are visiting, I'm supposed to be cooking lunch and the trap is set . "Oh ",I say to the six year old girl,"can you get some sausages from the bottom of the fridge?. " I watch with disinterest
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    Definatly worth a try -a warm comfortable pup will soon nod-off providing he is relaxed and has'nt wound himself up by fretting. He's probably crying either because it is a habit he has aquired in kennels where no one really bothers about the noise or because he really ,really wants to be with you at night .Try making a fuss of him as he goes to bed ,calm him down ,cuddle him and give him a lovely old jumper or similar that really smells of "You" before slipping out of the room without a fuss. Might not work but has to be worth a go .
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    One of my regular customers had one a few years back . Now addmitedly she'd made no attempt at obedience training so any comments on its biddability would'nt be fair but I'd have said it had a similar temperament to a whippet with maybe a tad of saluki aloofness thrown in . The lady owner is the ex-wife of a pop star and part of the divorce settlement included a few acres of overgrown woodland complete with rabbits . The Pharaoh was a great -but yappy- rabbiter when hunting on it's own terms . It was also a bit of a trouble-maker with the other dogs .Only once actually getting in a figh
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    We seem to be in the epicentre of Staghorn activity round here . Some of the more squeamish students from the local 6th form college stopped going into the park opposite to study (Oh really ;not to drink beer ,skate-board and burn strange aromatic fags then ?) because these thing s were appearing like locust a few weeks ago . This one made itself known to me when i was harrassing moleson a rugby pitch . Bet that ifactually went looking for one I'd never find one to order
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    This little chap said if I did'nt give him 20p for a cup of tea ( yeah right .I bet he spends it on booze or drugs ) he'd set his big brother on me .
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    I know just what you mean about that *****ing mole puppet ,the lawn -shark bollocks and the crap Chinky traps he sells to the public at shows at a massive mark-up! Sadly I know from talking to customers that the image of mole-trapping is actually being damaged by the presentation techniques used at the Guild stand at shows and the fudging answers they have been given when asking for genuine advice about catching their own problem mole . It would be very wrong of me to criticise the Guild itself or it's aims of which I know nothing but first hand-knowledge
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    In the good old days mink cages used to bought or home-made in lovely Imperial one inch square rigid weld- mesh . You only had to worry about the door having a good spring . The so-called squirrel/mink cages that are sold today are pretty poor things in comparison with weak rectangular mesh. The vertical bars are too far apart. A big muscular male mink has strength on his side while a female or youngster has the advantage of a slim build . Door shuts behind minky, it's probably not too fussed at first ,especially if the bait is good . After a while minky thinks about
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    Definatly agree . Forget mk 4s.They may be approved for squirrels but I've too often found well-caught squirrels dead in the trap but with a foot braced against the metalwork as if they had been struggling to heave themselves free before dying . Mk Vl s are much better . You are right to mention that you will be using boxes as the traps must placed in tunnels of the right diameter and design. This is a legal requirement as it reduces the chances of catching pets ,other wildlife and humans . The Fenn -type traps only work properly in real or artificial tunnels anyway so there is no
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    Had every intention of being on the Arun at first light on the 16th -even dug the worms -but By the time I'd got back from wasp-nest duties , walked the dogs ,cleaned my kitchen of rubble after some DIY building work and dared to have a cup of tea before dozing -off at about 1.30 am I ,er ,overslept . Finally I made it onto a little mill-stream last night. Just for fun I selected an elderly cane rod and centre-pin reel as long-casting isn't a problem . In fact the stream has long shallows and pools only about 18 inches deep and at most twenty feet across . In many places it narrow
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    Years ago when I was a keen young Keeper I dug a rather elaborate system of trenches in the bank of our duck flight pond , placed the only Mk6 Fenn the shoot possessed in the middle and covered the lot to form one massive tunnel trap.Head keeper took the p*ss out of me ,the Boss, his brother and even his bleedin spaniel extracted so much urine that I risked death through dehydration ... Driving around the lane the next morning I was overjoyed to spot evidence of a minor RTA in the welcome form of an unmarked dead mink of the usual dark brown variety . Ha Ha ,I'd show the disbeliev
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    The mating season tends to start as the daylight hours start to increase after the shortest day, around 21st of December . Rising light levels stimulate breeding behaviour . With a gestation lasting about a month some rabbits are therefore found to be pregnant by late January onwards but these early feotii are often re-absorbed by the mother -a sort of self abortion- due to unsuitable conditions such as lack of food ,stress or bad weather .By April most healthy adult does will either be pregnant or will have already given birth to a litter and the end of March/early April is gene
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    If you were budgetting £300 for a gun you'll have no trouble picking something up that is usable and if you buy from a dealer rather than privatly you should have some assurance that it is safe to use and does'nt have a dodgy past that will come back to bite you when you register it . Dealers have loads of old side-by sides of undetermined "Spanish" origin that have come-in via part- exchanges and the sound but unrefined Baikal SSs feature on every other gunshop shelf . You'll be surprised at what sort of perfectly usable knock-about bargains can be had for £ to £150 if you hav
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    Er yes forgot the pic .Sorry .
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    I was on a job at an American Classic car restorers , having a look about and could'nt help but jokingly ask "Which of the rotting hulks is "Christine? " . The evil ,indestructible car from the horror film of the same name . "That one ". came the reply. "Is that the same make then ?".I asked . "No mate .That IS Christine!." Various bits of various late19 50's Plymouth Furies bodged together into one entity that was probably never intended to last longer than the making of the film let alone last 25 years .. Well, one of the three Christines that have survived
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    My local rivers still have plenty between bootlace size and a couple of pounds and in certain tidal reaches a bait dropped near the bank at slack or as the tide starts to flood will bring a bite a cast . Strangely cheese or sweet corn seem to score over worms or fishy baits .This activity only lasts twenty minutes or so and can be hectic and frustrating due to the snags ,tide and tangles . Many Sussex rivers had their headwaters dammed as hammer ponds for the iron industry,farmponds and estate lakes and the odd good eel turns -up in these mature still-waters. If you are intere
  18. comanche
    Anagram fish . Carp fishing is coarse fishing . Though my mate and I refer to it lightheartedly as "anagram" fishing The last few years for some reason carp have been artificially elevated in some circles above our native fish in status . A lot of modern carp fishing at first examination appears to be based around crude ,self-hooking ledgering techniques which compares unfavourably with the fine end tackle and lightening reaction often required to hook a January roach from an icy river . That's an unfair comparison because every species requires it's own approa
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    The thing that i find interesting is that there really is very little that is new in todays angling except the modern materials . Method feeders ,poles with elastic,protein baits are nothing new . Perhaps the only real (sorry ) innovation has been in the developement of reels . Today's boot sale yielded one bamboo and two split- cane rods and a salmon tailer . I shall keep one of the split-cane rods . It seems virtually unused but as I think it is only a budget 60's imported jobby I 've no qualms about putting an end to that state of affairs . The bamboo rod is pr
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    EEk and i used for mackeral yesterday and lost it on a rock !!!.......... Only joking .I thought it might be interesting rather than valuable . There was another like it but not on it's card . Seems to have been a good month for coming across interesting bits . Bought something at a boot-sale called a "Matchomatic"-an old metal centre-pin reel - because it looked a bit more usable than my old wooden one that is great for pike but a bit insensitive when after the tiddlers I usually catch. So come the new season i shall be trying it out on the local mill-stream. Them gudgeon better loo
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    Could have gone in the fishing section but this fish has to be amongst the most exotic looking of our wildlife.
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    Come on .What's all this cr*p about china horses . Poor old Magwich even started doubting himself thanks to the non believers taking the mickty out of his rare and wonderfull picture ... It's a bleedin unicorn ,anyone can see that . On a similar note ; at risk of being the butt of some predictable p*ss-taking I'm going to share these pictures with you . These chaps came out of the bushes during a ferreting trip back in April. At first they gave me a hard -time about late-season rabbiting and how I was on "their patch" but then they actually put me onto
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    Bought a tin of old tackle from a boot sale . Basically I wanted the half a dozen or so light sea weights and was more than happy to hand over my two pounds and did'nt really look at what else was in there. Well have a look at what I came across at the bottom of the box ... The Allcock lure -still on it's card- is my favourite (after the six inch Whitby sheath knife that is'nt shown .) - and the old feeder -ledger is neat but I suppose the Milbro Lesney bread press( from the makers of Matchbox cars) is the most interesting as I think they were only made for a short time and did'nt
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    If someone contacts me as a customer and asks me to control their rabbits It has to be initially aproached on a proffessional basis . Once the situation has been accessed things can change . If a landowner offered the run of his farm with dog ,nets and ferrets I'd count myself lucky and certainly not mention payment. I would still approach the task as a proper job though. No creaming -off of easy burrows and skipping the nasty ones . The farmer has let me onto his land in order to keep his rabbits down not as a favour. If I don't do a good job of it he's -quite rightly- likely to invi
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    farm i go over has one of these its mint [ well apart from a dent he has just put in it ] Engine on this was smokin a bit at nearly 200,000 miles but twas the rust that never slept got it in the end and caused retirement to off road use only . Think the US version was marketed as the Subaru Rabbit . Very apt . Subaru_pick_up.bmp
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